Now I’m reading There is No Year by Blake Butler. It’s challenging and rewarding, just like Moby Dick. But you can’t read There is No Year on a Kindle—it’s specifically designed for the physical page. I like that. I’m not feeling any temptation to return to the Kindle. If I never read anything on the Kindle again, then I’ll have to start thinking of it as my $149 copy of Moby Dick.

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Great essay — congrats! — I don’t have a Kindle but I will always love Moby Dick, which for whatever reason I will always pair with Wuthering Heights as the twin pillars on which so much of modern literature has been built. #team_emily